Improvement in field fence and gate combined



L LEE.

Combined Fence and Gate.

Patented Oct. 24, 1865.

In venor -/M miQ UNITED STATES PATENT OEEICEO JOHN O. LEE, OF SEVILLE, OHIO.

IMPROVEMENT IN FIELD FENCE AND GATE COMBINED.

To alt whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, J. O. LEE, ot' Seville, in the county oi' Medina and State of Ohio, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in a Combined Fence and Gate; and I do hereby declare that the following is a full and complete description otl the construction and operation of the same, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, making a part ofthis specification, in which- Figure lis a plan view ofthe fence. Fig. 2 is a side elevation.

Lilie letters of reference refer to like parts in the views.

My improvement relates to constructing a fence so that any panel can be readily converted into a gate, as hereinafter described.

In the drawings, A and B are the posts, placed in a line any desired distance apart, on one side of which are attached slats d, placed horizontally across the upper and lower ends ofthe posts, as shown in Fig. 2.

F represents one of the panels of the fence, the slats b otl which are attached at one end to a strip, a, and at the other end they are secured between two similar strips, c, one on each side, as shown in Fig. l, and across the middle there is a strip, b.

At one end ot' the slats d, secured to the post A, is a strip, d', there beinga space, i, be-

tween it and the post the width ofthe slats b,

to allow thepanel to turn, as will be described. The end of the panel is supported and connected to the postA by the upper slat and the second slat from the bottom, resting on the slats d, while at the other end the two middle slats project beyond the strips c c and are put into mortises in the post B, as indicated at e.'

The panels constructed similar to F on either side of the posts A and B can be connected to the posts in the following' manner,

bein gindicated by the dotted lines: The slats of the panel Bf are placed on the strips d of the post Bin a similar manner that the end of the panel F rests on the slats d of the post A, as before described, and the slats ot the panel O can be connected to the post A, in the same way that the panel F is to the post B, by entering mortises in the post A. Thus a continuous fence could be made in this manner, so that any one ofthe panels could be converted into a gate, for by simply moving the panel Fin the direction ot' the arrow the slats are moved out ot the morties in the post B, when'the panel can be turned round between the post A and strip d', swingingon the slatsdinto theposition indicated by the dotted lines hin Fig. l.

Instead of the panel C being connected to the post A by the slats tting into mortises, the slats can be placed on the ends ofthe slats d, as noted by the red lines in Fig. 2, leaving a space between the strip c and post to allow the panel F to be moved out, so as to disengage the slats from the mortises at the other end, which is required in converting it into a gate.

1n making the fence, instead of having either end inserted into mortises in the posts, both ends can be supported on the slats d only in places where it might be thought desirable to have a gate, when the panels can be so arranged, as herein described.

What I claim as my improvement, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

The arrangement of the panel or gate F, in combination with the mortised post B, post A, strips d', and slats d, as and for the purpose set forth. y

JOHN C. LEE.

Witnesses: DAVID J oHNsoN,

JOSEPH Ross. 

